Category: Quotes About Equality
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. -Charles Rangel
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. -Hjalmar Branting
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time. -Marlo Thomas
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity. -Ferdinand Mount
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. -Arthur Ashe
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. -Golda Meir
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag. -Adrian Cronauer
Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations. -Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open. -Gerry Adams
America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation. -Nick Rahall
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously. -Bashar al-Assad
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits. -Mike Honda
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. -Aristotle
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. -Rudyard Kipling
As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality,…
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. -Sandra Lee
When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality. -Frances O'Grady
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. -Tom Robbins
Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality. -Pratibha Patil
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -Albert Einstein
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty. -Robert Casey